topic Re: passwd -l <username> command equivalent in 10.20 in Operating System - HP-UX

passwd -l command equivalent in 10.20

Mel Burslan — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 20:53:37 GMT

HP/UX 11.x has this nice feature of issuing the command 'passwd -l ' to disable username's account immediately from the command line.

Unfortunately passwd command in 10.20 lacks this -l option. I am sure, if not the same, something in the lines of disabling an account can be done by using passwd and pwage commands on 10.20 but for the life of me, I could not figure out an easy way. Is there a cookie cutter recipe to do this somewhere in a script form or sequence of commands ?

All help is greatly appreciated

Re: passwd -l command equivalent in 10.20

Sachin Patel — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:02:07 GMT

Mel,
I don't think 10.20 has such option. You can alwasy type * or something in his password fild in passwd file.
Or
change shell to /bin/false

Sachin

Re: passwd -l command equivalent in 10.20

Michael Tully — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:06:56 GMT

The sam log produces a this string when deactiviting a user.

/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p "*" username

But the problem is there is no -p option for usermod.sam program ... What this did was to place a '*' in the encryption field. You can edit the /etc/passwd file directly and do this anyway. Use 'vipw' program.

Re: passwd -l command equivalent in 10.20

Michael Steele_2 — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:10:30 GMT

Re: passwd -l command equivalent in 10.20

Mel Burslan — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:28:24 GMT

Since I am not a big fan of SAM. I forgot to check the sam logs to see how it is being done there.

Thanks for the

/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p "*"

command. it works like hot knife thru butter for me.